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Studio Museum in Harlem Appoints New Chief Program Officer: Natasha L. Logan is 'Proven Leader' With 'Deep Commitment to Uplifting Artists's Voices'

Studio Museum in Harlem Appoints New Chief Program Officer: Natasha L. Logan is ‘Proven Leader’ With ‘Deep Commitment to Uplifting Artists’s Voices’

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM is welcoming Natasha L. Logan as its chief program officer. The Studio Museum focuses on local, national, and international artists of African descent. Logan will be responsible for exhibition and program strategies, a key leadership role supporting the museum’s mission and fundraising goals. Logan joins the Studio Museum from Creative...
Latest News in Black Art: Greg Tate Wins Pulitzer, Venice Biennale Silver Lion Award, Project Row Houses Names Director, Plus New Triennials in Boston and Delta Region

Latest News in Black Art: Greg Tate Wins Pulitzer, Venice Biennale Silver Lion Award, Project Row Houses Names Director, Plus New Triennials in Boston and Delta Region

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   CHANELL STONE (American, born 1992), “Cotton Mud,” 2022 (inkjet print, 50 x 60 inches / 127.00 x 152.40 cm). | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: WTL.2024.158 © Chanell Stone; Photo by Chanell Stone   MUSEUMS Carnegie Museum...
New Time100 List of World's Most Influential People Includes Studio Museum's Thelma Golden, Architect Lesley Lokko, and Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier

New Time100 List of World’s Most Influential People Includes Studio Museum’s Thelma Golden, Architect Lesley Lokko, and Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier

See everyone on the Time100 list for 2024. | Video by Time   ACCORDING TO TIME MAGAZINE, the most influential people of 2024 include three important figures in worlds of visual art and design: artist and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier, architect and educator Lesley Lokko, and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio...
Imani Roach Named Curatorial Director of Philadelphia Museum of Art's New Center for African and African Diasporic Art

Imani Roach Named Curatorial Director of Philadelphia Museum of Art’s New Center for African and African Diasporic Art

THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (PMA) announced in February 2023 the establishment of the Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art. A year later, the museum has selected Imani Roach to lead the center. Roach joins PMA from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where she currently serves as assistant curator, Arts...
Latest News in Black Art: U.S. Museums Hire New African Art Curators, Michael C. Thorpe Wins EXPO Chicago Purchase Prize, Conrad Egyir Joined Miles McEnery Gallery & More

Latest News in Black Art: U.S. Museums Hire New African Art Curators, Michael C. Thorpe Wins EXPO Chicago Purchase Prize, Conrad Egyir Joined Miles McEnery Gallery & More

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Conrad Egyir in his studio, 2024. Shown, at left, “Milk, Honey and Refuge,” 2024 (oil, acrylic, and mounted wood, on canvas, 77 x 60 inches / 198.1 x 152.4 cm). | Courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery...
Claudette Johnson Makes Turner Prize Shortlist, Pioneer in British Black Arts Movement is Known for Complex, Figurative Representations of Blackness

Claudette Johnson Makes Turner Prize Shortlist, Pioneer in British Black Arts Movement is Known for Complex, Figurative Representations of Blackness

LONDON-BASED Claudette Johnson has been shortlisted for the 2024 Turner Prize. A pioneer in the British Black Arts Movement, Johnson creates commanding, large-scale figurative works that center Black men and women. Tate Britain announced the shortlist of four artists, including three women, this morning. The selected artists are Johnson, Pio Abad, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine...
Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano,  Arvie Smith Among Guggenheim Fellows, Honoring Hank Aaron

Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano, Arvie Smith Among Guggenheim Fellows, Honoring Hank Aaron

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Cécile Fromont | Courtesy Harvard HAA   APPOINTMENTS First Faculty Director at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery Cécile Fromont (above) is joining Harvard University as a new professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the...
Latest News in Black Art: Raymond Saunders Joined David Zwirner, Southern Guild Hired New LA Directors, Ibrahim Mahama and Dalton Paula Win Artist Awards & More

Latest News in Black Art: Raymond Saunders Joined David Zwirner, Southern Guild Hired New LA Directors, Ibrahim Mahama and Dalton Paula Win Artist Awards & More

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   RAYMOND SAUNDERS, Untitled, 1990 (mixed media on wood, triptych; Each: 96 x 48 inches / 243.8 x 121.9 cm; Overall: 96 x 144 inches / 243.8 x 365.8 cm). | © Raymond Saunders. Courtesy the artist, Andrew...
Latest News in Black Art: Ingrid Pollard Wins Hasselblad Photography Award, New Gallery Representation for Alberta Wittle, Coco Fusco, and Julien Creuzet & More

Latest News in Black Art: Ingrid Pollard Wins Hasselblad Photography Award, New Gallery Representation for Alberta Wittle, Coco Fusco, and Julien Creuzet & More

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Ingrid Pollard reflects on her work and winning the 2024 Hasselblad Award. When she was first contacted about the honor, Pollard assumed it was a scam. After realizing she indeed was the recipient, she thought about being...
Mati Diop Won Top Prize at Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary About Return of Looted Art to Benin

Mati Diop Won Top Prize at Berlin International Film Festival for Documentary About Return of Looted Art to Benin

Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop won the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival top prize for the documentary “Dahomey,” which she wrote, directed, and co-produced. | Photo courtesy Berlin Film Festivals   Mati Diop is the first Black filmmaker to win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival   IN 2021, FRANCE RETURNED 26 artworks...
Lauren Haynes Named Head Curator of Governors Island in New York, She is Expected to Grow the Public Art Program

Lauren Haynes Named Head Curator of Governors Island in New York, She is Expected to Grow the Public Art Program

Governors Island: The Exchange (aerial view), show­ing the icon­ic forms designed to evoke the dra­mat­ic land­scapes and hills of the island with the skyscrapers that define Manhattan’s skyline in the background. | © SOM | Miysis via Governors Island   GOVERNORS ISLAND offers a quick escape from the city streets to a park-like environment with...
Looking Ahead: Jennie C. Jones is Taking on Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rooftop Garden Commission in 2025

Looking Ahead: Jennie C. Jones is Taking on Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Rooftop Garden Commission in 2025

THE ROOF GARDEN of The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers majestic, panoramic views of the New York City skyline. Each year, the museum selects an artist to create a rooftop installation that highlights their practice, engages with The Met collection, and responds to the picturesque outdoor space. The project provides the encyclopedic museum with a...
Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Newly Created Position, Appoints Dalila Scruggs Inaugural Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Newly Created Position, Appoints Dalila Scruggs Inaugural Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art

THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (SAAM) announced the appointment of Dalila Scruggs to a newly created role on its curatorial team. Scruggs is joining the Washington, D.C., museum as the inaugural Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art. Currently, she is curator for photography and prints at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for...
2024 Tate Britain Commission Goes to Artist Alvaro Barrington: 'My Mind Has Been Spinning Since I First Got Invited to Do It'

2024 Tate Britain Commission Goes to Artist Alvaro Barrington: ‘My Mind Has Been Spinning Since I First Got Invited to Do It’

TATE BRITAIN selected Alvaro Barrington (b.1983) for the next Tate Britain Commission. The annual commission is a site-specific work presented in the grand neo-classical Duveen Galleries of the London museum. Exploring themes of “place and belonging,” Barrington’s installation opens May 26. “We are thrilled that Alvaro Barrington is taking on this year’s Tate Britain Commission....
Latest News in Black Art: Kelly Sinnapah Mary Joins James Cohan, Gary Tyler Wins Frieze LA Impact Prize,  Harlem Landscape Designer Working with Dia Beacon & More

Latest News in Black Art: Kelly Sinnapah Mary Joins James Cohan, Gary Tyler Wins Frieze LA Impact Prize, Harlem Landscape Designer Working with Dia Beacon & More

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   KELLY SINNAPAH MARY, Installation view of “Notebook of No Return: Memories (Mama),” 2022 (triptych, acrylic on canvas, 99 x 77.5 inches each, three total), “everything slackens in a wreck.” Shown, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, N.Y. (2022)....
2024 David C. Driskell Prize Goes to Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Guggenheim Museum: 'I Am Equal Parts Elated and Humbled'

2024 David C. Driskell Prize Goes to Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Guggenheim Museum: ‘I Am Equal Parts Elated and Humbled’

THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART announced Naomi Beckwith is the recipient of the 2024 David C. Driskell Prize. The $50,000 prize is awarded annually to an artist, curator, or scholar in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of African American art. Beckwith is the deputy director and Jennifer and David Stockman chief curator of...
Historic Appointment: Robert C. Davidson Jr., is New Chair of Smithsonian American Art Museum's Board of Commissioners

Historic Appointment: Robert C. Davidson Jr., is New Chair of Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Board of Commissioners

THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM (SAAM) in Washington, D.C., has a new board chair. Robert “Bob” C. Davidson Jr., was appointed chair of SAAM’s Board of Commissioners, effective Jan. 1, 2024. The news was announced Feb. 15. He was appointed by his fellow commissioners to a four-year term. Davidson is the retired chairman, CEO, and...
Jack Shainman Gallery Adds Charisse Pearlina Weston to Roster of Artists Engaged in Social and Cultural Issues

Jack Shainman Gallery Adds Charisse Pearlina Weston to Roster of Artists Engaged in Social and Cultural Issues

Charisse Pearlina Weston. | Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery   CONCEPTUAL ARTIST Charisse Pearlina Weston is now represented by Jack Shainman. The New York gallery has an international roster of nearly 40 artists recognized for exploring social and cultural issues in their work, including Nina Chanel Abney, El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Kerry James Marshall, Meleko Mokgosi,...
Adrienne Edwards Appointed Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at Whitney Museum, Expanding Her Leadership Role

Adrienne Edwards Appointed Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at Whitney Museum, Expanding Her Leadership Role

THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART in New York announced the promotion of Adrienne Edwards to the position of Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs. Edwards joined the Whitney in 2018 as curator of performance and was named director of curatorial affairs in 2021. She is currently organizing “Edges of...
Latest News in Black Art: Essence Harden is Co-Curating Made in L.A. 2025, Oluremi C. Onabanjo is Photography Curator at MoMA, Shortlist for London's Fourth Plinth & More

Latest News in Black Art: Essence Harden is Co-Curating Made in L.A. 2025, Oluremi C. Onabanjo is Photography Curator at MoMA, Shortlist for London’s Fourth Plinth & More

  Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Fourth Plinth Shortlist 2026, 2028: Clockwise, from top left, “Ancient Feelings,” by Thomas J Price; “Sweet Potatoes and Yams are Not the Same” by Veronica Ryan, “Hornero” by Gabriel Chaile, and “Lady in Blue” by Tschabalala...